The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 42
"Good sport," said the Prince, and he ordered out his pack of hippopotamuses at once.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, order out · To what, where: pack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sport | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sport | amod |
| 3 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sport | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sport | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ordered | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 ordered | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hippopotamuses | case |
| 17 | hippopotamuses | hippopotamus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pack | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 ordered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | order out | past | Prince | Prince's pack of hippopotamuses | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent pack=Theme at once=Asset |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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